Ashes On Foam
He kept you in a box and forgot to tell us /
you came back alive when he dreamed /
you kissed him, you in death, he just before /
he died, not seeing his own death on your lips, /
parting.
Think it through. What you will
take, what you will leave behind.
No need to polemicize. The journey
was long, longer than you thought.
Now it’s over. There’s no going back.
No promises to keep. No needs to fulfill.
Only memory to will a clean slate
and regrow a girl from scratch. Start